Katie Rogers is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Debbie Reynolds and Diane Burke.

Katie's bad luck continued as Clint was shot dead by Ron Dixon (Vince Earl) during a robbery.

Writers created a long-term grief story for Katie, which sees her contemplate suicide, become alcohol dependant and alienate her friends and family against her.

In the book Brookside The First Ten Years, Geoff Tibbals wrote that Katie is intelligent and "cares more about the state of the world than her bedroom.

Parents dying, being brainwashed by a cult leader, having bulimia as a teenager, her fiancé being shot by her best friend's dad.

"[4] The character was often portrayed as a heavy alcohol drinker and Burke claimed she had become an "expert at crying" because of Katie's endless dramas.

Katie's siblings Sammy (Rachael Lindsay) and Geoff Rogers (Kevin Carson) and their friend Bumper Humphries (James Mawdsley) decide to intervene and ambush Bagga when she enters Brookside Close.

[2] After her bullying ordeal, writers featured Katie developing a crush on her science teacher Mr Molineux.

[2] She enlists the help of her friend Siobhan (Joanne Birchall) but when they begin cleaning, Katie falls into the polluted water.

[2] When producers decided to break-up the marriage of Frank (Peter Christian) and Chrissy Rogers (Eithne Brown), writers used the opportunity to impact Katie the most.

[7] Young told Browne that she needed to leave to save the Rogers family from being axed entirely the following year.

Young's research for the show found that there was an increasing number of families with children splitting up in the United Kingdom.

She begins to be a bad influence on Katie and used her to get close to Owen Daniels (Danny McCall) in her plan to seduce him.

Katie is grieving the death of her father, Frank and which attracts the attention of Simon Howe (Lee Hartney).

[9] Hartney told a reporter from Inside Soap that "he's trying to convert Katie to his cult [...] he enjoys manipulating people and loves the power."

Burke stated that Simon is "so full of crap" but writers chose the correct character for the story.

"[10] Producer's created a long-running grief storyline for the character following the death of her boyfriend Clint Moffat (Greg Pateras).

Burke told the Sunday Mail's Hendry that "Katie's had a bit of a mad time recently.

[13] After her father, Frank, died in a car crash in November 1993, she became vulnerable and easy to fool for cult leader Simon.

Initially, she was the only resident living on Brookside Close caught up in the cult, until Terry Sullivan (Brian Regan) joined.

"[3] Gareth McLean from The Guardian opined that Katie's bulimia and cult stories "paled in comparison" to her self-loathing and alcoholism over Clint's death.

"[16] In another review McLean stated that Katie's involvement in the cult storyline as an example of Brookside failing to portray everyday life scenarios.

[18] Their colleague Tina Ogle wrote that it was "no wonder Katie developed an eating disorder" because she "slobs around, depressed and out of work.

"[19] Jim Shelley criticised Katie's hairstyle, joking that it was inspired by "Adolf Hitler joining The Human League".